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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Uinuja

Desna, the goddess of dreams, and her butterfly-winged servants
have been at the core of Golarion since its birth—Desna and a lyrakien even graced the
second-ever issue of Pathfinder.So it makes sense that an azata who serves
the Great Dreamer would appear in a Bestiary
devoted to mind monsters.While Desna
protects many travelers on many roads, uinujas protect mortals who travel in
dreams from the predations of dreamthief hags, painajai demons, and worse.

In your campaign, uinujas are likely going to be PCs’
allies; their mind-spires might be one of the few safe places a dreaming self
or Astral traveler can find shelter and protection.But all azatas are mercurial, and uinujas are
quick to combat those who trespass in Dream where they are not wanted, no matter
what alignment it says on your character sheet.

Traveling in the
Ethereal Plane, adventurers come across a phantom they have encountered
before: a servitor of a spiritualist ally.The phantom has been trapped here since his mistress’s dreaming mind was
captured by a dreamthief hag.He seeks
the return of his mistress’s consciousness, but that mind is going on a strange
journey.Rather than the hag torturing
the spiritualist’s mind or using it to power her magic, she has instead sold
the dreamstone to a mercane who seems to have found a way to use dreams to
power voidjammers.

Trapped outside the
Dimension of Dreams and warped by long captivity in the kyton realms, the
uinuja Recall the Blooming Nightshade is now Blade Belladonna.Though not a demon yet, her spirit is
blackening by the day (for instance, she already inflicts serious wounds instead of curing them).Adventurers
hoping to rehabilitate Blade Belladonna cannot simply return her to the
Dreamlands, where she will only become one more nightmare creature, but must
instead transport her all the way to Elysium to be tended to in the healing
springs.

There are no angels
or archons—or even gods—on Terpanor.Priests and clerics have limited powers gained by praying to ancestral
spirits and genii loci, entering into
compacts with devils, or earning an azata’s favor.But the gods, angels, and
archons are not dead—they sleep.And the
uinujas will do anything to keep them dreaming, for their slumber holds the
Abyss in repose as well.

—Occult Bestiary 9

One idea I didn't explore is the fact that uinujas can't visit
the Material Plane on their own and love stories about the planes in
general.A uinuja desperate to get to
the real world might cause all kinds of trouble for PCs…

Terpanor is a world on the back of a giant chelonian.You can tell from the name.#feartheturtle

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